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Assessing the Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission via Surgical Electrocautery Plume

Abstract

This quality improvement study used a nonhuman subject research approach to examine whether SARS-CoV-2 from aerosolized virus is present in and potentially transmissible from a electrocautery plume in surgery.

Authors

Sowerby LJ; Nichols AC; Gibson R; Sommer DD; Moore C; Fraser DD; Arts E

Journal

JAMA Surgery, Vol. 156, No. 9, pp. 883–885

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Publication Date

September 1, 2021

DOI

10.1001/jamasurg.2021.2591

ISSN

2168-6254